Unit 6 - Expansion & Division

Who proposed the compromise of 1850?

• Henry Clay
• Abraham Lincoln
• Frederick Douglass
• Harriet Beecher Stowe

What state would be added to the Union as a free state according to the Compromise of 1850

• Oregon
• California
• Michigan
• Iowa

What circumstances made California ready for statehood so quickly?

• Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo

• Gadsden Purchase

• Manifest Destiny

• Gold Rush

As part of the agreement in the Compromise of 1850, how would the remaining territory from the Mexican Cession be decided?

• The Senate would vote
• The House of Representatives would vote
• The President would vote
• Popular sovereignty

What was the idea of Popular Sovereignty?

• Plan to free California

• Plan to allow each state to vote individually on the issue of slavery

• Plan to bring the Transcontinental Railroad to the US

• Plan to use the popular vote to elect the President

What did the Fugitive Slave Act do?

• Allow escaped slaves in the North to remain free

• Force escaped slaves in the South back into slavery

• Nothing, it never passed

• Force Northerners to assist Southern slave-owners in recapturing escaped slaves

What did the Compromise of 1850 end in Washington, D.C.?

• Slavery

• The Slave Trade

• Popular Sovereignty

• Federalism

In the Compromise of 1850, which 2 territories would use Popular Sovereignty?

• New Mexico and Utah

• Louisiana and Kansas

• California and New Mexico

• Oregon and Arizona

What principle in the Compromise of 1850 allowed people in territories to vote on whether to be a free state or a slave state?

• independent choice

• popular sovereignty

• checks and balances

• transcendentalism

What senator wrote the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

• Henry Clay
• Stephen Douglas
• Harriet Beecher Stowe
• John Calhoun